I dunno about everyone else's machine, but I can visibly watch the gauge bouncing between 1.0 to 1.1bar.

Just timed it over a period of about 150 seconds, and it's something like the following.

6s on40s off5s on40s off5s on40s off6s on

The ambient temperature in my kitchen is between 65-70F. Perhaps, I should investigate insulating the boiler to help retain heat better. Hopefully, that would reduce cycles on the relay and improve its lifespan.

It's not terribly annoying, it just *feels* wasteful, to me. Maybe the pstat will wear over time and increase its range to .9 to 1.1 bar instead, that would prolong the time between heating cycles (but also increase the on duration).

I've got mine setup also. Got the grinder set up to do about 27 seconds on 2 ozs of espresso. First two lattes went down the drain as the yellowish water made the milk taste awful. I ran a bunch of water through it and will try again.

I love this espresso machine and its working great. I did take my new Baratza Preciso grinder apart to check grind adjustments,per their website, and found it on the coarse setting. They have three internal settings,coarse, neutral and fine. Its now on fine and much better. This explains the people who use this grinder coming up with different settings for espresso I think. My clue was dialing grinder down to lowestsettings and having issues with 30/30....30 lbs tamp and 30 second pull for double shots. So now I have that done,machine was a pretty self explanatory,and the fresh Black Cat and Verve arrived. Time for Latte heaven. With the super steam power of this machine micro foam is a breeze and makes me wonder if I ever got it on my beloved Classic.

My boiler water still stinks, used it to cook some tea last night, blech... I guess I'll try to cycle more water through it, drawing <4oz at a time is a major pain. I wish it could just have some fittings that I could open and flush some water through--I do not look forward to descaling without an easier method of flushing.

Mine was that way for awhile...But 28 double latte's later its fine. In fact the first ones we had did taste that way...but we just drank them...I considered it part of the journey so why not! :)

pfn Said:

My boiler water still stinks, used it to cook some tea last night, blech... I guess I'll try to cycle more water through it, drawing <4oz at a time is a major pain. I wish it could just have some fittings that I could open and flush some water through--I do not look forward to descaling without an easier method of flushing.

I set mine up couple of days ago and have run A LOT of water through--maybe two gallons--the water finally stopped smelling. I had the best espresso of my life this morning, I can't wait to fiddle around to make it even better!

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